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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

The amount of controversy is this thread is a dead giveaway that some fuckery is going down.

Luckily the amount of actual engagement shows its all just manufactured and there is no real consensus. Anyone forming an opinion based on discourse in this thread needs to step back and interface with real, actual, protesters.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who you vote for says a lot about what your priorities are and what your moral compass is willing to tolerate for what you see as the "greater good." When you vote for someone, you may not agree with everything they stand for but you absolutely do believe that overall what they stand for is more closely aligned with your political goals than the alternatives.

[–] starman2112 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't really reflect that much on you. Like, if my choices were Putin or Pol Pot, I don't think voting for Putin would say much about my moral compass. Obviously not voting would feel nicer, but feeling nice doesn't help much when the national average life experience drops to the mid teens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Equating trump and biden is dishonest. Both in terms of what the average american experiences and at a distant policy level.

Saying "I dont care about things that dont immediately impact me" also says a lot about someones' moral compass and where their priorities are. There is no belief that doesnt say SOMETHING about a person.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

That's why I always vote for Satan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Fucking brilliant.

[–] Dinsmore 4 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I have a feeling that the people who upvote this meme hate "trump voters" because of their complicity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Voters are not complicit in individual policies, but they are complicit in the broad differences in outcomes that are easily predicted. Trump is, by any sane metric, the greater evil by far, so Trump voters are complicit in bringing more evil to the world.

The choice to vote for a viable candidate rather than a non-viable one doesn't make anyone complicit in an outcome they couldn't realistically vote to prevent. Anyone who thinks a candidate other than Biden or Trump can win in November is delusional.

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